Encrypted home directory

[Sachin]

I had never expected so much of discussion :), which is healthy.(I had never
thought of swap)
But shouldn't be discussion limited to whether we can provide this feature
or not and let the end user decide whether he wants to use it or not.

And if he faces the problem like scalability or umounting he/she log the bug
with upstream ..

I am believe fedora is about choices and freedom.


2008/12/22 David Nielsen <gnomeuser at gmail.com>

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> 2008/12/22 Nikolay Vladimirov <nikolay at vladimiroff.com>
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>> 2008/12/22 Muayyad AlSadi <alsadi at gmail.com>:
>> > I guess we should have an optional special directory inside each user's
>> home
>> > let's say it's named private
>> >
>> > a trivial pygtk tool can call fuse to mount a file there into the same
>> directory
>> >
>> > what do you think ?
>> >
>> > I guess I have 1000000s config files on my home, apps will start very
>> > slow if they are encrypted (think firefox for example)
>> >
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>> It's good to have an option to do both encrypted home and dedicated
>> encrypted dir in home.
>> Sice it's normal to have programs that save your passwords in
>> plaintext in their configs. And yes,
>> most of them do that because they also send the passwords in plaintext
>> over the net,
>> and if someone watches your traffic it will be trivial to find them.
>> Also it's good to encrypt the cache of some programs since it's common
>> that you don't want
>> your browser history, cache, etc. to be visible.
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> Wouldn't saving passwords in plaintext (presumably also history and cache)
> be a bug?
>
>>
>> However I find it simpler and safer to use hardware disk
>> encryption(from the BIOS config) and a bunch of other thinkpad
>> security stuff.
>> I'm not really sure if this kind of stuff is widely available on other
>> hardware. So this software encryption thing seems nice.
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